Researchers study pre- and probiotic use in premature infants for a deadly intestinal disease
Sep 08, 2008 |
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Scientists at UC Davis will launch a groundbreaking study to determine the best cocktail of pre- and probiotic supplements to give to premature infants to prevent a deadly intestinal disease. Probiotics are live, beneficial ...
The groan says it all -- dominant male deer have the deepest calls
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Sep 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The low timbre and enticing vibrations of a deep voice have long been considered a key element of male attractiveness. Now it seems that it's not just human females that appreciate a husky vocalisation.
Survey finds spirituality is important to eye patients
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Patients visiting an ophthalmologist report that prayer is important to their well-being and that God plays a positive role in illness, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of Ophthalmology.
Air pollution can hinder heart's electrical functioning
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Microscopic particles in polluted air can adversely affect the heart's ability to conduct electrical signals in people with serious coronary artery disease, researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart ...
Toward improved antibiotics using proteins from marine diatoms
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Researchers in Florida are reporting an advance toward tapping the enormous potential of an emerging new group of antibiotics identical to certain germ-fighting proteins found in the human immune system. Their ...
Launch of GOCE Satellite delayed
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The preparatory activities for the launch of ESA's GOCE satellite from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia had to be stopped yesterday afternoon (Sunday 7 September) by Eurockot due ...
Psychiatry research: When the mirror becomes an enemy
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 08, 2008 |
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A nose that's too big, hair that's too curly or a beauty mark in the wrong place – who hasn't focused on a small detail of their appearance while staring at a mirror?
International experts collect alpine fungi in Beartooth Mountains of Montana
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Armed guards once kept polar bears away while Cathy Cripps collected mushrooms and fungi on the island of Svalbard between Norway and the North Pole. Another time, Cripps encountered musk-oxen while gathering fungi in Greenland.
NXP introduces world's first fully integrated HDMI 1.3 Interface Conditioning chips
Sep 08, 2008 |
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NXP Semiconductors, the independent company founded by Philips, today announced the industry’s first fully integrated Interface Conditioning chips for the HDMI 1.3 port.
New paper sheds light on bacterial cell wall recycling
Sep 08, 2008 |
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A new paper by a team of researchers led by Shahriar Mobashery, Navari Family Professor of Life Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, provides important new insights into the process by which bacteria recycle their cell ...
A new addiction: Internet junkies
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 08, 2008 |
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While compulsive gambling is only beginning to be addressed by mental health professionals, they must now face a new affliction: Internet addiction.
Rare frog caught on film during Manchester rainforest expedition
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An incredibly rare frog has been captured on camera for the first time during an expedition by University of Manchester scientists to the rain forests of Central America.
Using neutron-computed tomography techniques, scientist measure in-situ water content
Sep 08, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University of California in Davis present results from a newly developed non-invasive technique that uses thermal neutron attenuation to measure spatial and temporal distribution of water in soils. The study, ...
Scientists develop model to map continental margins
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a new exploration method to assist the oil and gas industry in identifying more precisely where the oceans and continents meet.
Scavenger birds chew the fat
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Humans aren't the only ones who like fatty foods - bearded vultures do, too. A study by Antoni Margalida from the Bearded Vulture Study and Protection Group in El Pont de Suert, Spain, has found that the bearded vulture will ...
